From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] module: unexport each_symbol()
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:45:19 +0930
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On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:30:22 am Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 01:29:43PM -0400, Tim Abbott wrote:
> > While Ksplice is not in-tree yet, Ksplice is a user of each_symbol (and in 
> > fact was the reason why each_symbol was originally exported).  Is it easy 
> > to modify your patch series so that you don't have to remove each_symbol?
> 
> We don't keep symbols for out of tree junk around.

I expected ksplice to go in earlier, actually.  I applied their export patch
to ease the transition.

I'd still like to see ksplice merged, but it's a big hunk of code.

Rusty.
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